WANTED ford lightning instrument gauge cluster

WANTED ford lightning instrument gauge cluster

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V10 BAT

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1,718 posts

241 months

Saturday 18th April 2009
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Hi guys
Just got an 03 lightning can spec speedo is in km.
There seem to be people who may be able to convert it to mph,but
maybe if i can get a mph one it could be less aggro.
Or if there is any euro guys that wanna do a swap im cool with that.
cheers Dave t

irocfan

42,391 posts

197 months

Monday 20th April 2009
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Can spec should have MPH on the inside with KPH on the outside... OK the odometer in kilometers is a pain but other than that no issues...

V10 BAT

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1,718 posts

241 months

Monday 20th April 2009
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Your right mate,but it kinda goes 20 ,40,60,80.
On the way home after picking it up ,mrs was behind me and we hit a 50mph section for 13miles
on the m1.
on the speedo there are no marks at all bettween the numbers above,no prob just get the needle in the middle of 40 and 60 mph,ok wheres the mrs gone,to me i should have been doing 50,but later the mrs said i was up and down around 55,54.this was on an average speed section .
important marks on the speedo would be 30,50,and 70.exactly what i dont have.
Iknow i sound paranoid,being baned sucks,ask me how i knowbiggrin
Maybe i just need to get used to it,the other thing is the headsup display in my corvette
has made me lazy.
cheers Dave
ps i could just have the tomtom infront of me,but to keep installing and removing it(broken window nick thing)
would, and is, a pain in the arse

SVTRick

3,633 posts

202 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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Learn to convert to KM's or use the rev counter.
Or stick a small thin marker line on the front at the important speeds.
A real pain to swap out, I did mine as it failed a real arse of a job.

HD Adam

5,155 posts

191 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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Er, 1 km is 5/8 of a mile so 50mph is 80 kph funnily enough. biggrin

Swapping the cluster is, as said, a pain in the botty. If I drive car marked in Km, just divide by 8 and multiply by 5 to get mph. teacher

SVTRick

3,633 posts

202 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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HD Adam said:
Er, 1 km is 5/8 of a mile so 50mph is 80 kph funnily enough. biggrin

Swapping the cluster is, as said, a pain in the botty. If I drive car marked in Km, just divide by 8 and multiply by 5 to get mph. teacher
Watcha Mate byebye

irocfan

42,391 posts

197 months

Tuesday 21st April 2009
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SVTRick said:
HD Adam said:
Er, 1 km is 5/8 of a mile so 50mph is 80 kph funnily enough. biggrin

Swapping the cluster is, as said, a pain in the botty. If I drive car marked in Km, just divide by 8 and multiply by 5 to get mph. teacher
Watcha Mate byebye
I see - slumming it here too!!

V10 BAT

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241 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2009
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SVTRick said:
Learn to convert to KM's or use the rev counter.
Or stick a small thin marker line on the front at the important speeds.
A real pain to swap out, I did mine as it failed a real arse of a job.
Sounds like half the truck interior on the drive then.
cheers for the input, men.

SVTRick

3,633 posts

202 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2009
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V10 BAT said:
SVTRick said:
Learn to convert to KM's or use the rev counter.
Or stick a small thin marker line on the front at the important speeds.
A real pain to swap out, I did mine as it failed a real arse of a job.
Sounds like half the truck interior on the drive then.
cheers for the input, men.
Best left alone unless you like have double jointed fingers and wrists.
Mine was warrenty but got the part sent over and swapped myself.
At least i know all the clips and chit went back as per oem.



V10 BAT

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1,718 posts

241 months

Thursday 23rd April 2009
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No one does the work better than you right.
Boost upgrade should be at the top of my list


graeme36s

7,106 posts

224 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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simpler option is to get a speedo mask. There's a guy in harrow, middlesex that can do it, need to do a search though as I cannot remember his number. The last one he did for me was on a W140 Merc with a 340kph speedo. Converted it to mph with kph on the inside and it looked 100% genuine merc.

V10 BAT

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1,718 posts

241 months

Friday 1st May 2009
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Thanks mate,working on exactly that.i have an oem one coming from the usa £50
and a 20 min swap,so he tells me.then should be able to get the odometer corrected
to miles.im glad i persude it cos it turns out theres an easy fix.cheers Dave

irocfan

42,391 posts

197 months

Friday 1st May 2009
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V10 BAT said:
Thanks mate,working on exactly that.i have an oem one coming from the usa £50
and a 20 min swap,so he tells me.then should be able to get the odometer corrected
to miles.im glad i persude it cos it turns out theres an easy fix.cheers Dave
Do tell....

V10 BAT

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1,718 posts

241 months

Saturday 2nd May 2009
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i`ll do some pics mate.Got the gauge face friday its stock ford lightning
a bit of a fiddle with the needles,but its in there with no major probs.
thing is there is no difference with km/mph clusters,just the face mask.
Just need to get the needle in exactly the right position.later Dave

V10 BAT

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241 months

Tuesday 5th May 2009
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Ok spent 20 mins going up and down a local road,stop remove needle,
reposition ,repeat again and yep close enough.I am talking about 1mm of movement of the needle did make aprox 4 to 5 miles an hour diff in speed.This was near and around the zero mark
Job done,if anyone needs anything to do with clusters,try these guys,seem like a great bunch.
US SPEEDO 810-244-0909 ask for Harry.
This is a stock oem mask i got from them




thanks again for all the input guys. Dave